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Osborne insists he did not profit from the arrangement
Osborne faces expenses judgement

By politics.co.uk staff George Osborne will learn if he is to be penalised over his expenses claims later. The shadow chancellor was investigated over his second home allowance by the parliamentary standards watchdog. The Tatton MP was accused of over-claiming on his mortgage in his Cheshire constituency home by a Labour activist. But Mr Osborne… Read more »

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Allowances for the green benches' inhabitants are still up in the air
Analysis: Expenses hope remains for MPs

“It says on the tin we’re independent,” the man in charge of reforming MPs’ expenses explained. He is demonstrating this by double-checking everyone agrees with him. By Alex Stevenson Professor Sir Ian Kennedy, for it is he, no less, has succeeded in doing what absolutely none of the three party leaders want him to: keep… Read more »